More details on conference topics

• Transportation infrastructure (roads, rail, bus service, airports, bike lanes, pedestrian zones)
• Internet/communications infrastructure
• Running a City – Science & business practices applied to city management
• Clean drinking water, Water treatment, Recycling, Solid waste disposal
• Cities and storms/weather (winter storms, drought, hurricanes and other extreme weather phenomena)
• Urban disaster planning (big topic in USA – terrorism response, hurricane response, earthquake response)
• Building infrastructure & energy efficiency
• Demographic change and Health care – hospitals, elderly issues, neo-natal care, etc
• Absorbing migrants (low-income people from countryside or foreigners)
• Tracking people (ID cards, facial recognition software)
• Crime & Policing (video surveillance, computers in police cars, forensics)
• Applications of geographic Information (satellite images, GPS tracking of things)
• Cities as hubs for private sector R&D